{"id":37,"date":"2006-09-01T00:06:24","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T07:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/?p=37"},"modified":"2006-09-01T00:06:24","modified_gmt":"2006-09-01T07:06:24","slug":"tgit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/2006\/09\/01\/tgit\/","title":{"rendered":"TGIT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the weekend in this part of the world is Friday and Saturday, Thursday night is the “yea! it’s the end of the week” night. (Well at least for western-style employees. Most egyptians work 6 days a week, with their day off either Friday, is they are Muslim, or Sunday if they are Christian)<\/p>\n

Anyway, one of the faculty members organizes a moving TGIT(Thank God It’s Thursday!) happy hour.<\/p>\n

Last night was the first of the semester. It was at the roof top bar at the Nile Hilton.<\/p>\n

It was a gorgeous sunset.
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\nFrom the rooftop you can see the pyramids. I did not bother taking a photo, because they would be practically undetectable because of the haze. They might be visible if I had the big camera with the UV and polarizing filter, but I doubt it.<\/p>\n

It was a lovely couple of hours sitting high above the Nile, looking out at the Cairo Tower (shown in the photo above) and The Citadel, and down on all the felucca’s and floating restaurants and pleasure craft on the nile. There is a nice breeze up there that nicely moderates the heat.<\/p>\n

The beer is overpriced and really not that good, but it is worth the trip for a sunset every now and then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since the weekend in this part of the world is Friday and Saturday, Thursday night is the “yea! it’s the end of the week” night. (Well at least for western-style employees. Most egyptians work 6 days a week, with their day off either Friday, is they are Muslim, or Sunday if they are Christian) Anyway, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out-and-about","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}